I also received my flies in the mail today. Kudos to all those involved with a special shout out to John for coordinating. I'm ready for another swap. My input as to lessons learned from this last swap include the following:

- Refine the type of fly to be tied. Seems like we had multiple midges. Not a bad thing, as they will surely catch fish, just saying.
- Include recipe for flies (myself included)
- Send a buck or two to cover shipping back. The coordinator shouldn't be responsible for footing the shipping tab.

Great news glad you liked them. I agree, we need to pre pay postage and have envelopes includued and ready to go. Support material for the flies was great, however i did forget to include my own. I would also suggest using a fly box of your choosong to send your flies in and have the new flies returned to you in. I just mooched boxes from a friend at a loca flyl shop to try and keep them safe.

personaly i really enjoyed setting this up and would gladly be the flymaster again. with continued support and improved ideas we can get really good at this.
I'm thinking i would like to try another Mercer patter the Gold Bead Poxyback Green Drake Nymph.

Jimbo, I'll be honest, I didn't even try. In the past any pictures of my flies I took were just poor. There is definitely a nack to taking pics of tiny flies. I should have tried though and will next time. You will be able to see and bid on the actual fliies at trout fest.

My batch of flies arrived in today's mail. Outstanding work by everybody, I can't wait to put them to work. Thanks to all and a special thanks to our flymaster. Count me in for the next fly swap.
Bob H.

Hello all.
JWK invited me to tie in his swap, and while tying tiny trout flies isn't exactly what I am accustomed to, I welcomed the challenge and did my best not to embarass myself. Mine was the only dry fly in the swap. Hopefully my submission will find it's way to the business end of your lines at some point.
As I mentioned, trout flies are new to me, and I welcome any comments or suggestions you my have to offer. I look forward to the next swap, I have already agreed to participate.

Thanks, I joined JWK a few weeks ago to fish the guadalupe, we saw trout rising to eat fairly large yellow whatevers... . The fly I tied basically started as an adams variation, using yellows, and materials I had on hand. I used floss, rather than dubbing.

I was looking at a nymph pattern in a book I bought recently. I forget the name of it, but it was butt ugly . It looked like it would be fun to tie, think I will give one a try, and possibly post a pic for comments.